This guide will tell you how to get some free, spooky fishing equipment in exchange for certain fish.
Guide to Secret Fishing Equipment
All credit goes to Cuchulainn of Ulster!
Intro
There are four pieces of fleshy fishing equipment that aren’t found through quests, so I thought I’d make a little guide for anyone who was interested. You need to place certain fish into their shrines to get them. In case you’d rather try and figure out what you need by yourself, but you can find where the shrines are located from the pictures.
Sinew Spindle
This one’s a straight upgrade over both the starter pole and the flexible fishing pole you get in research. It’s also very easy to get. Just need five cod.
Mouth of the Deep
This is a very big and very durable crab pot you can get in exchange for one decorator crab and two rock crabs. You can catch both of them in the Gale Cliffs with the basic crab pot but the decorator crab only appears in depths of 5 meters or higher.
Viscera Crane
This crane cran snag both abyssal and hadal fish. It can be found near Stellar Basin in exchange for one of each of the four types of sharks: hammerhead, blacktip reef, bronze whaler, and ghost. The first and fourth can be found in the Stellar Basin, second and third in the Marrows (blacktip only comes out at night). They should all be able to be caught with basic ocean fishing equipment except for the ghost shark. You’ll need to help the researcher in Stellar Basin to get equipment that can fish in abyssal waters first.
Tendon Rod
This rod works in shallow, oceanic, and mangrove waters. You can trade in any aberration at the shrine to get it.
Sinew Spindle is actually awesome because it’s 1×2 size. You can use it with 2×3 nest.
Im upset that there is no volcanic type device, also that you cant fill all the rods and the encrusted talisman.
i think the rune might be near devils spine but i don’t remember
Oh yeah – it’s definitely in Devil’s Spine. It’s a piece of fishing equipment that doesn’t enable you to catch any fish by itself – so it has to be paired with a rod that does – but massively boosts Fishing Speed.
(Also apparently there is at least one Ghost Shark spot in Stellar Basin, I just never found it. Much more common in Devil’s Spine, at least.)
The “Mouth” is quite convenient.
Ghost Shark (fourth type of shark needed for the Viscera Crane) is in Devil’s Spine I believe, not Stellar Basin.
I have heard there’s also a “special equipment” version of the lights, relating to the Ancient Lighthouse / finding the tablets in Devil’s Spine. Probably not a freaky fleshy version, though.
did you miss the one right at the marrow there is a shrine there that wants all cod